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The UK government has introduced a new measure to deal with Omicron:
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Stickman posted:Her hometown, Wasilla, currently has a ~150% infection prevalence since the beginning of the pandemic (for detected infections) and still manages to consistently have the highest daily infection rates in the state. Thoughts and prayers. 🙏🏼
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Dec 20, 2021 18:18
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Your favorite prez got the booster and gets booed lol https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1472970896004505600?s=20
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Dec 20, 2021 18:20
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Stickman posted:Her hometown, Wasilla, currently has a ~150% infection prevalence since the beginning of the pandemic (for detected infections) and still manages to consistently have the highest daily infection rates in the state. Her church is also an apocalypse cult that believes Alaska will be a sanctuary for the righteous in the end times which are any day now.
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Dec 20, 2021 18:32
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FogHelmut posted:I've had a dry cough through the weekend. What are the odds that I got it again? I'm double Pfizer and had a breakthrough case in October. Aren't I still eligible for false positives from the last one? prom candy posted:It's December so there's lots of colds going around but also I don't think being double vaxxed and having a breakthrough saves you from having a mild infection later. Only way to know for (mostly) sure is a PCR. Mr.Pibbleton posted:Her church is also an apocalypse cult that believes Alaska will be a sanctuary for the righteous in the end times which are any day now.
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Dec 20, 2021 19:36
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prom candy posted:The last couple years have been a great time to be a pessimist. quote:I'm sure it'll get worse though. That's the spirit!
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Dec 20, 2021 19:58
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Animal-Mother posted:Yes! Haha thank you for acknowledging my stupid joke
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Dec 20, 2021 20:04
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Your favorite prez got the booster and gets booed lol I, the de facto leader of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party, am surprised that leopards are eating my face.
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Dec 20, 2021 20:21
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Zugzwang posted:Right, as long as the PCR can detect Omicron through SGTF. Otherwise you need sequencing. All currently available PCR tests can detect Omicron, it's just some can't differentiate between it and other variants.
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Dec 20, 2021 21:05
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goddamnedtwisto posted:All currently available PCR tests can detect Omicron, it's just some can't differentiate between it and other variants.
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Dec 20, 2021 21:37
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goddamnedtwisto posted:All currently available PCR tests can detect Omicron, it's just some can't differentiate between it and other variants. Actually there are three PCR tests that cannot detect Omicron at all and the FDA has recommended be pulled. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices...elivery#omicron
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Dec 21, 2021 00:38
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Reuters is saying apparently Omicron accounted for 73% of all infections tested last week in the US alone  https://www.reuters.com/world/us/omicron-fueled-covid-wave-crashes-into-new-york-days-before-christmas-2021-12-20/
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Dec 21, 2021 00:38
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Meanwhile I know people posting photos of themselves taking their kids to see santa at the mall, maskless, after waiting in a huge line of also-maskless people. 
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Dec 21, 2021 00:44
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Severedseven posted:I'm about one year out from when I got covid (teaching). I can smell things but it's all different now. Onions, garlic and coffee all smell like literal poo poo. Hand soaps and artificial fruit candy now smell identical to burning motor oil. Cardboard boxes smell like vomit. My mom is currently suffering this, and has been for over a year, but we're not certain she ever had covid, since she has other ongoing conditions as well. I showed her your post and it made her feel better, because she isn't alone. Seth Pecksniff posted:Reuters is saying apparently Omicron accounted for 73% of all infections tested last week in the US alone In hindsight, Omicron Georg, who lives in a cave and has 100,000 cases of the Omicron variant, was an outlier and shouldn't be counted.
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Dec 21, 2021 00:47
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https://twitter.com/MollyNagle3/status/1473083674002444288
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Dec 21, 2021 01:35
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Ihmemies posted:Well there is nothing you can do to anti-vaxers/anti-maskers except to let nature sort them out. If science and education and instructions are no good, what you can do? Get police/national guard to forcefully grab the unvaccinated and force adminster vaccines for them, against their will? Once you get the jab it will be too late and even cutting off your arm doesn't stop the vaccine from spreading inside you.
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Dec 21, 2021 01:58
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https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1473032130984873988?s=20
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Dec 21, 2021 02:04
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Sounds like a good time to GET BACK TO WORK AND RESTART STUDENT LOANS
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Dec 21, 2021 02:06
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ShadowHawk posted:Vaccine mandates dramatically increase the proportion vaccinated. This "they'll never get the shot" fatalism just isn't true, empirically, for the vast majority of the unvaccinated. Yeah my cousin was antivax but it turns out he's more anti being on unpaid leave
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Dec 21, 2021 02:08
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Britain is small but it isn't *that* small. The vast majority of Omicron so far has been in London, where it has almost completely displaced Delta - as always the provinces are lagging behind the avant garde. This is however worrying for a different reason, in that levels in London were lower than much of the rest of the country for quite a while - while it's not yet been quantified, it certainly *suggests* that a lot of Omicron cases are waltzing straight past the conditions (vaccination, prior infection, and waaaaaaay down the list the minimal NPIs in place) that had kept cases low in London previously. ("Low" is of course a relative term here)
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Dec 21, 2021 02:38
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I-I-I don't know how I feel about my son having two covids a day
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Dec 21, 2021 03:05
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goddamnedtwisto posted:All currently available PCR tests can detect Omicron, it's just some can't differentiate between it and other variants. At this point in time, S gene dropout is going to be indicative of Omicron 99.999% of the time. The other variants that displayed that behavior were overwhelmingly crowded out by Delta.
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Dec 21, 2021 03:08
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Britain is small but it isn't *that* small. The vast majority of Omicron so far has been in London, where it has almost completely displaced Delta - as always the provinces are lagging behind the avant garde. No. There is no requirement for displacement when cross strain immunity is negligible. It was already dominant in most regions days ago and delta growth remains flat or slowly increasing.. https://mobile.twitter.com/theosanderson/status/1472242014276173836 This is also being seen in Denmark. https://mobile.twitter.com/ProfPHansen/status/1473046773916651527 Trevor Bedford discussed the likelihood of this last week, and again today. https://mobile.twitter.com/trvrb/status/1472971352604770305 Hold onto your balls as we head into syndemic 2022. https://mobile.twitter.com/Reuters/status/1473084648397938689 Blitter fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Dec 21, 2021 |
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Dec 21, 2021 03:49
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A few pages back someone mentioned offhand that double masking isn’t recommended anymore, can anyone give a good synopsis of why that is? Inner mask interfering with fit of the outer, or something else?
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Dec 21, 2021 04:36
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Just wear a better single mask since they're widely available these days
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Dec 21, 2021 04:43
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bradburypancakes posted:A few pages back someone mentioned offhand that double masking isn’t recommended anymore, can anyone give a good synopsis of why that is? Inner mask interfering with fit of the outer, or something else? If it's two paper/cloth masks or whatever, you are not gaining any filtration effectiveness, you will just be breathing around the edges of the masks instead. If the inner mask is a proper N95, it is already offering you sufficient protection; if it has an exhalation valve, blocking or covering it will interfere with the mask's ability to remain sealed.
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Dec 21, 2021 04:54
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Every single day we get an article saying Omicron is less severe than Delta and then another one saying no it isn't. Is it just choose your own pandemic at this point?
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Dec 21, 2021 05:10
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prom candy posted:Every single day we get an article saying Omicron is less severe than Delta and then another one saying no it isn't. Is it just choose your own pandemic at this point? I was at the urgent care today and I over heard the nurses talking about how they have seen such a large number of positive tests the past few days but most people aren’t even that sick just minor stuff. They all remarked how weird it was after everything they’d previously seen.
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Dec 21, 2021 05:12
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It takes time for severe illness to show up. Covid is generally mild at first, and then you get to play a fun waiting game over a week or two before you find out whether you're going to get hit by a truck.
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Dec 21, 2021 05:33
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Hopefully people aren't going to an Urgent Care for serious stuff instead of going to the ER. Who am I kidding. This is USA, of course they are. Can't afford that ER copay or the insane out of pocket for the uninsured
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Dec 21, 2021 05:48
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Woodsy Owl posted:Hopefully people aren't going to an Urgent Care for serious stuff instead of going to the ER. Most people I know go to the ER because they don't realize UC is a cheaper option (and more suited to mild issues or whatever u would normally see a PCP for but they're uninsured and don't have one....)
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Dec 21, 2021 05:57
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prom candy posted:Every single day we get an article saying Omicron is less severe than Delta and then another one saying no it isn't. Is it just choose your own pandemic at this point? Study updated today with analysis of 11K omicron positive cases in London. This is not a speculative piece based of anecdotes or wishful thinking. It's a prestigious and well regarded institution, looking at a large sampleand saying: "Imperial College of London posted:(..) limited changes in severity compared with Delta. Blitter fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Dec 21, 2021 |
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Dec 21, 2021 06:07
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There is 0 reason to double mask now, you can go to homedepot, buy a pack of 3m aura's or an elastomeric and be good to go
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Dec 21, 2021 07:06
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Blitter posted:Study updated today with analysis of 11K omicron positive cases in London. This is not a speculative piece based of anecdotes or wishful thinking. It's a prestigious and well regarded institution, looking at a large sampleand saying: What data are they basing their 'limited change in severity' assertion on? I don't think there's any doubt about the increased vaccine escape/reinfection risk but I haven't seen much either way indicating a change in severity beyond a lot of anecdotes.
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Dec 21, 2021 07:15
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if you were serious about Covid you'd go double respirator 
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Dec 21, 2021 07:18
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Blitter posted:No. There is no requirement for displacement when cross strain immunity is negligible. It's so drat fast. Delta was in the US as early as February but still took until June to become more prevalent than alpha: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/north-america Omicron pulled off the same trick in less than three weeks: https://twitter.com/alexmeshkin/status/1472974374747602951
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Dec 21, 2021 07:20
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A funny observation I just had: they should just let Netflix take control of the COVID pandemic, given they never let anything run past three seasons.
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Dec 21, 2021 07:34
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prom candy posted:Every single day we get an article saying Omicron is less severe than Delta and then another one saying no it isn't. Is it just choose your own pandemic at this point? I read an article on CNN this morning that said case rates are surging in New York City but hospitalizations aren't. I kind of wonder if NYC (and Israel too) are going to be the real litmus tests for how Omicron actually affects people. NYC has a very high vaccination rate so I would think most cases would be breakthrough cases? But if the hospital numbers aren't really increasing then that might be a good indicator that omicron produces less severe illness. And I don't know what the numbers are like in Israel right now but if I remember correctly I believe they also have a very high vax rate plus almost everyone that is vaxed has been boosted for a while now. So that might another test study to see what omicron does to a highly boosted population.
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Dec 21, 2021 07:37
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Wizard Master posted:A funny observation I just had: they should just let Netflix take control of the COVID pandemic, Wizard Master's at it again~!
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Dec 21, 2021 07:40
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Everyone with Omicron will feel fine for a month and then drop dead. Mildly.
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Dec 21, 2021 07:45
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